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So the GOES-R series is NOAA’s

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current
generation of geostationary satellites

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and these are the satellites that are
stationed permanently over the U.S..

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So that they can constantly monitor

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weather and other hazardous environmental
conditions for the for the U.S.

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and our neighbors
throughout the hemisphere.

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GOES-U

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is in fact the last.

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The fourth and final of the GOES-R series.

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And we actually have an extra passenger
on GOES-U.

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We've added to GOES-U a new instrument
that's designed to do space

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weather monitoring.

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The new instrument is called

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the compact coronagraph,
and it's designed to look at the Sun

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and the coronal area around the Sun,
specifically for coronal mass ejections.

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These are masses, tons really, of charged
particles that the Sun ejects.

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And if those come towards the earth,
they can affect things that people care

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about, like electrical power,
like radio signals, and G.P.S.

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signals.

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GOES-U has advanced instrumentation.

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It has a camera that can zoom in

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and look at dangerous phenomena
as often as every 30 seconds.

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It's also got a lightning mapper
that's designed to look for lightning

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activity as often as 500 times a second.

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So in combination,
those two instruments can look at any kind

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of dangerous activity that's happening
across the hemisphere, whether that's

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tornadoes or floods, ice
or snow even looks for

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volcanic ash and fires.

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Yeah,
it's a little like the cycle of life .

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GOES-U represents
the end of the GOES-R development stage.

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But the GOES-U satellite will continue
observing

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long into the future
but it also represents the bridge.

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GOES-U will be the bridge
that actually takes us

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to the next generation of satellites
called GeoXo.

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Just search for NOAA's

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satellites in your browser
or on social media.

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Yeah, it's important
to never run out of weather satellites

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and so NOAA's already planning
the next generation series called GeoXO.

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GeoXO is going to add capabilities,
including an ocean color instrument

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to look at coastal conditions

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and an air quality instrument
to look for pollution across the U.S.

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So those instruments combined with the
the continuity of the current instruments,

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will give a very comprehensive view
of dangerous phenomena

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that might affect the U.S.

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and it'll really help us address

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the challenges of climate change,
things like intensifying hurricanes,

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more prevalent harmful
algal blooms and more prevalent wildfires.

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GOES-U is destined to be our goes East
satellite.

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That means it'll be stationed
off the east coast of the U.S.

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From there it can see all of the U.S.

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It's also a good spot for it to track
areas of the Caribbean and South America.

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And it can also see all the way
across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa,

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which is important because the hurricanes
that affect the East Coast

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really start out in the Atlantic
and come towards us from that direction.

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Geostationary is a unique orbit,

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the height of the orbit, which is 22,000
miles above the surface of the Earth,

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actually puts it
so that the rotation rate of the satellite

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matches the rotation rate of the Earth.

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And so that means that the satellite is
always looking at the same place on Earth.

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And that's really important if you're
trying to watch a storm continuously.

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That's what
the geostationary orbit does for you.